Defense Communities National Summit

The 2019 Defense Communities Summit will feature new sessions and formats at a new location on new dates. The summit, taking place June 10-12, is moving to the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill and will include new program types such as breakfast roundtables, policy symposiums, issue briefs and defense trends forums. The five members

Keynote sessions from the 2018 Defense Communities National Summit, along with other conference highlights, are now available on ADC’s YouTube channel: Opening keynote — Lucian Niemeyer, assistant secretary of defense for energy, installations and environment; and Phyllis Bayer, assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations and environment Creating Great American Defense Communities keynote —

In the stirring conclusion to her keynote remarks at the 2018 Defense Communities National Summit Monday, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson recounted the courage of a B-1 crew responding to a fire in the wing. When the seat of the first crew member attempting to eject malfunctioned, the commander of the B-1 Lancer decided to

The next three days promise a packed schedule of keynote speeches, service briefings, town halls, concurrent sessions and networking events as a record 800 attendees from communities, DOD and the private sector gather in the nation’s capital. It’s a critical time for community leaders and installation officials to meet, with a variety of pressing budget

Over the past several years, communities outside more than 100 active and closed installations have been grappling with the discovery of contamination in either their drinking water systems or groundwater supplies believed to stem from the use of firefighting foam by the military. The problem has posed a significant financial burden on communities, which still

John Gibson II, the Pentagon’s first-ever chief management officer (CMO), said that “at the high level” the Defense Department supports House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry’s plan to streamline its support agencies by cutting duplicative activities and reorganizing others, according to a recent interview. “In the spirit of where the chairman’s going, I’d say we’re